“Hello! I am a developer. Here is my relevant experience: I code in Hoobijag and sometimes jabbernocks and of course ABCDE++++ (but never ABCDE+/^+ are you kidding? ha!) and I like working with Shoobababoo and occasionally kleptomitrons. I’ve gotten to work for Company1 doing Shoobaboo-ing code things and that’s what led me to the Snarfus. So, let’s dive in!
Oh do grow up, frankly.
When I taught myself to program, there was no internet. You went and bought an enormous, 800 page book (usually written by Charles Petzold) and you hoped to Darwin something, anything would be understandable and lead you to move forward just a little bit.
If it’s worthwhile doing it’s hard.
You recognize the feelings of the author and relate to them personally with Charles Petzold’s writing from back when, and say they need to grow up?
I think it’s a little reductive to say the author just wants everything to be easy.
Help me understand what the author is trying to say, please. It could be I’m missing something. It just reads to me like the author feels everybody else has a responsibility to somehow make complicated topics easy.
That’s what tutorials are for! 😂
Some topics are just complicated. If I write you a tutorial in fast Fourier transforms I can’t start the tutorial at 1+1=2.
But you can put it in the pre-requisites
Of course. But that wasn’t the complaint/satire of the satirist whose article we’re discussing.
I think you’ll find that’s a huge part of the complaint - unexplained terminology. See Microsoft tutorials that never tell you what any of their TLA’s are, nor link to any explanations of them, exactly as is satirised
Classic example of someone who wrote tutorials like the type being satirised.
Writing good tutorials isn’t hard. You just have to not assume background knowledge of anything you’re writing about. If you write it for beginners, then literally anyone can follow it.
So maybe the tutorial the satirist was satirising just wasn’t quite aimed at the satirist.
I think many people here have seen exactly such tutorials - indeed aimed at them - hence the huge upvotes. See Microsoft tutorials that never link to any pre-requisites at all (leaving you looking for a Youtube by an Indian programmer).